Saul Arellano (BS, CSU 2005)
2007 Bridge Program Cohort

Research Interests:Identification of the mutated genetic locus responsible for an autosomal dominant ataxia that arose spontaneously in an inbred mouse strain

Chiemela Nkuku (BS, CSU 2007)
2007 Bridge Program Cohort

Research Interests:Measuring the transport kinetics of pteridine across the phospholipid bilayer of a giant unilamellar vesicle using scanning electrochemical microscopy

Marilyn Wells (BS, UIC 2007)
2007 Bridge Program Cohort

Research Interests:Investigating factors influencing the development of antibiotic resistance in Enterococci by induction

Diana Monsivais (BS, UIUC 2004)
2006 Bridge Program Cohort

Research Interests:Alzheimer's disease, calpain's role in the pathogenic organization of tau proteins and the cytoskeleton

Shannon Allen (BS, CSU 2005)
2005 Bridge Program Cohort

Current Affiliation: PhD student, Northwestern IGP

Research Interests:"A Time Course Analysis of Differentially Expressed Genes Involved in the Early Response to Spinal Cord Injury"

Taneka Douglas (BS, CSU 2003)
2005 Bridge Program Cohort

Research Interests:Naive T cells Induce Dendritic Cells to Secrete IL-12p40, not IL-12p70, During Antigen Presentation"

Angenee Milton (BS, CSU 2004, MS, CSU 2007) 2004 Bridge Program Cohort

Current Affiliation: PhD student, Department of Biological Sciences, UIC

Research Interests: Multiple mRNAs of the alfalfa (Medicago sative L.) RootCAR1 gene originate from dual TATA elements in an abiotic stress- and tissue-specific manner

Jade Morris (BS, UIUC 2004, MS, CSU 2007) 2004 Bridge Program Cohort

Current Affiliation: Research Assistant, Children's Memorial Hospital

Research Interests:Differences in the serumantibody of BALB/c mice immunized with an HIV protein and malaria

Jeanie Ramos (BA, UIUC 1999)
2005 Bridge Program Cohort

Current Affiliation: PhD student, UC Santa Cruz

Research Interests: Using Dictyostelium discoideum as a live cell model to examine the structural organization and formation of Hirano Bodies

Juan Reyes (BS, UIC 2004)
2004 Bridge Program Cohort

Current Affiliation: PhD student, IGP, NU

Research Interests: Developing a model system to study the dynamics of Hirano Bosy formation in Dictyostelium discoideum: An inducible protein expression approach